This is one of the best thing that has happened this year. I hope that next time Microsoft tries to enforce a similar “security” / locking measure, hardware vendors will think twice before implementing it.

It’s good revisit issues we covered before with good news. Especially when said good news make Microsoft look bad.

“The leak serves as a reminder of the potential dangers in security when tech firms are pressured by governments and law enforcement agencies into producing special keys”

Protip: If anyone at the company meeting suggests “addons” for your mobile product throw them out the window.

If you absolutely must have a modular type device, chances are you’re going to be changing it often.

Pulling a backplate off a phone whenever you decide to change something is just going to cause you to lose or break it.

I like the uniformity the different backplates with the different functionality give the phone, but the kind of people you’re targeting with the ability to mod a device don’t really care for looks and care more about ease of access/replacement of a given module.

Someone missed the mark!

I find the idea neat, it certainly enables a lot more of possibilities from those devices we know as phones and are incredibly locked down.

I don’t expect people to change these modules every day. You know what else is modular? PCI slots. And I haven’t messed with those since I received my PC.

A lot of what Martin is saying here is corroborated by Purism’s own blog plus, to a much sugar coated degree, the Linux Action Show 405 and Linux Unplugged 132 and also a few Phoronix posts which Larabel didn’t write.

Still, a few of the most egregious claims can only be taken as word of mouth.

I have no reason to doubt Martin but the skeptic in me is still firing on all engines.